Ch 15: Immigrants, Cities, and Reform Review

Question 1

What helped make the American workplace better?

Accepted Answer

Reforms

Question 2

What did immigrants help grow?

Accepted Answer

Industry

Question 3

Why did millions of Americans move to the cities?

Accepted Answer

To get jobs

Question 4

What happened to some businesses in the late 1880s?

Accepted Answer

Monopolies

Question 5

Immigrants could be sent back to their home country if they didn't pass their inspection.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Where did most immigrants enter the country?

Accepted Answer

New York Harbor

Question 7

What is it called when workers stop working to make business owners change things?

Accepted Answer

Strike

Question 8

What did government leaders believe in?

Accepted Answer

Laissez-faire

Question 9

What did Roosevelt start to do to big business?

Accepted Answer

Regulate it

Question 10

What industry did Andrew Carnegie control?

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 11

Are you going to dominate your quiz?

Accepted Answer

No, No clue, Yes, Maybe

Question 12

What was one of Roosevelt's new labor laws?

Accepted Answer

Making monopolies illegal

Question 13

What invention made tall buildings possible?

Accepted Answer

Elevators

Question 14

What were crowded, dirty parts of a city where buildings are old and need repairs?

Accepted Answer

Slums

Question 15

What invention opened the way to new products?

Accepted Answer

Electricity

Question 16

Where did newcomers register?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 17

What are groups of workers who join together to make owners change things?

Accepted Answer

Labor Union

Question 18

What are unfair ideas about people based on a group they belong to?

Accepted Answer

Prejudice

Question 19

Where did immigrants come from in the late 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Eastern Europe

Questions 19